Vibrancy
Cloudy day but the tree outside my window is bright. I stitched together two strips of two-inch squares that seemed to belong together. I tried to force some others together, but they refused. Not...
Category: stitching
Pile of squares
I’ve stitched quite a few three-inch squares. They are now in a pile. I’m not sure what to do with them from here. But it’s nice to have them around. Mostly blue and green,...
Assembly
I’m trying different layouts of these squares. So far they are very regular and balanced. I’m wondering what would happen if I shifted them to be more out of balance – mostly yellows on...
Nine nines
I stitched a few one-inch squares every morning. Then I stitched them into strips of three. Then stitched three strips of three into nine-patches. Very satisfying and before I knew it, I had nine....
Modernist smocking
I learned this smocking technique from Annie Coggan, in an online class offered by Tatter Blue Library. Easy to do and makes quite a dimensional piece of fabric. Drawing the grid on the fabric...
Deep greens and blues
This is to document a therapeutic process more than an actual plan. Sometimes I just want to match colors and sort scraps as a kind of comfort. Today these blues and greens really spoke...
A Stitchery
Continued from Rags and scraps I stitched all nine patches down to a eco-printed vintage linen square. The background is interesting, but not interesting enough that I hesitate to cover it up. Then I...